Senior Product Designer - Design Systems

The role

You will shape and evolve Origami, the FT's design system, to create coherent and accessible digital experiences. You will work with designers, engineers, and product managers to develop shared foundations, components, and guidance for web and mobile. You will also explore how AI can support the future of design systems.

What you will do

• Shape and evolve Origami's shared foundations, components and design guidance.
• Contribute to the design system's forward plan.
• Collaborate with designers, engineers and product managers.
• Lead design work from problem definition through to implementation.
• Apply visual and interaction design craft for web and mobile.
• Work with engineers to evaluate technical feasibility.
• Create clear documentation, guidance and examples.
• Support colleagues in using the design system.
• Explore AI-assisted approaches to developing and maintaining components.
• Test AI-enabled workflows with designers and engineers.

Required qualifications

• Significant product design experience, with strong visual design, interaction design and prototyping skills.
• Experience creating, maintaining or evolving design systems, reusable components or shared patterns.
• A portfolio demonstrating high-quality product design and design systems work.
• Advanced experience using Figma, including component libraries, variables and design tokens.
• Experience building interactive prototypes using code, with a working knowledge of HTML and CSS.
• Strong technical understanding and confidence collaborating with engineers.
• Experience designing for web and mobile.
• Knowledge of accessibility principles and experience applying them.
• Experience using or exploring AI-assisted design and development tools.
• Experience leading cross-functional design work.
• Strong communication and documentation skills.
• A collaborative, systems-oriented approach.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting the adoption of a design system across multiple product teams.
• Experience exploring how AI tools can use design system guidance, components or code to support product development.
• Experience evaluating the effectiveness of design systems through feedback, usage evidence or measures of quality and adoption.

Benefits

• Generous annual leave
• Medical cover
• Inclusive parental leave packages
• Subsidised gym memberships
• Opportunities to give back to the community

About the company

The Financial Times is one of the world's leading news organisations, globally recognised for its authority, integrity and accuracy. It has a warm, collaborative culture with a mission to deliver quality information and services worldwide.